2-752-303 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Scuttling of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow', First World War, 1918, (c1920). '...: towing German officers and men to one of the British battleships'. After the armistice was signed, the German High Seas Fleet surrendered at Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy's base in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The Germans later scuttled their ships to prevent them falling into the hands of the British. From "The Great World War: A History", Volume IX, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]